Sodajerker on songwriting

Podsongs

Sodajerker is a songwriting team from Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Founded by co-writers Simon Barber and Brian O’Connor, Sodajerker is the creative outlet for two friends raised on the celebrated songbooks of such luminaries as Lennon and McCartney, Bacharach and David, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Goffin and King and The Chic Organisation. Like the profession from which they take their name, Sodajerker use their hard-won skills to conjure artistry from the everyday. Their songs have been heard on radio stations around the world and on a number of film soundtracks. Simon and Brian are also the co-hosts of the Sodajerker On Songwriting podcast, a programme featuring interviews with some of the world’s most successful songwriters.

LYRICS to SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS LIKE A SONG:

Radio plays
No. 1 hit
But is there really
Anything to it
Melody flows
On repeat
Underneath
Generic beat
Soaring up
Crashing down
Missing meaning
It's only sound
Don't listen hard, and don't listen long?
To something that sounds like a song
The production
Is delicious
Only a little
Repetitious
Is the rift
Stuck in your head
Is it important
What was that he said?
People listen all day long
To something that sounds like a song
Pause for a moment
To take it apart
Peel back the pieces
Is there a heart?
A chorus to praise
Wisdom in verse?
Will it change things
For better or worse?
Fighting injustice, righting a wrong?
Or just something that sounds like a song?
Make a video
Cover your traces
Distract with images
Lots of pretty faces
Don't listen hard, and Don't listen long
To something that sounds like a song
Something that sounds like a song
Something that sounds like a song

LYRICS to UNNECESSARY MUSIC:

The world is saturated with songs
And we all just nod along
They have the patter and the beat
But they're whitebread food to eat
Unnecessary music
Why do we produce it?
Cos it is more fun to do
Than it is to listen to
Unnecessary music
Perhaps it's therapeutic
But they say a burden shared
Is a burden doubled
No idea in there was conceived
The embryo can't be believed
It has a head and arms and legs
But take its pulse you'll find it's dead
Unnecessary music
Why do we produce it?
Cos it is more fun to do
Than it is to listen to
Unnecessary music
Perhaps it's therapeutic
But they say a burden shared
Is a burden doubled
What spurred you on to finish it?
Put layers on the thinnish bit
When you had half-written the song?
Why'd you decide to carry on?
Unnecessary music
Why do we produce it?
Cos it is more fun to do
Than it is to listen to
Unnecessary music
Perhaps it's therapeutic
But they say a burden shared
Is a burden doubled